FBI raided Hacker , who hacked University for security reasons

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An employee of Baltimore-based software consulting firm on a project for the University of Maryland (UMD) got raided by FBI because he hacked his own company where he was working. Helkowski mentioned about a vulnerability of system but was not getting serious. Because of being ignored he revenged UMD and hacked the system and made them sure that he was not wrong.

He was raided on his house when he came back from dinner with his wife where police was already waiting for him in his house. Helkowski said that he cooperated fully with the agents. “During the RAID I provided my 20+ character system encryption password, my Keepass password, the location of my keyfiles, and a full description of everything. I basically 'confessed' everything to the FBI already. My stance is that I did nothing 'morally wrong.' My attempt the entire time has been to help the university improve their security.”

And the staff memo published by the University of Maryland from Ann G. Wiley, UMD’s interim vice president and chief information officer, Wiley wrote, “The FBI has informed the University that the intrusion resulted in no public release of any information and no damage to the institution, except for the release of personal data of one senior University official, who has been notified. We are unable to comment further on the intrusion at this time." 

Hacking could be done for any reason whether for revenge or for fun and this is the practical example of it. Let’s see what is going to happen with Helkowski when he hacked into system just to let  them sure that he was not wrong and system did have vulnerabilities.